Book, Chapter
1 I, I | were designing to hold by force what they had obtained by
2 I, II | coming with only a small force, he lost the reputation
3 I, II | again thought of sending a force to the relief of Italy;
4 I, IV | against them with their whole force; but these, being assisted
5 I, V | having collected a great force in Germany, marched into
6 II, II | preserved without a sufficient force for the defense of it, they
7 II, II | that he did not dare to use force to obtain it; and thinking
8 II, II | thought they had sufficient force, the thirty-six being assembled,
9 II, II | Florence, to enter the city by force which he had abandoned in
10 II, II | Manfred, was coming with a force from Germany, for the conquest
11 II, III | resorting to arms to recover by force what they had lost by illiberal
12 II, V | and resolved to enter by force, took arms to oppose them (
13 II, V | having left part of their force at Lastra, and by not having
14 II, V | availed himself of private force and authority, and of the
15 II, V | great numbers, could not force them, and the battle became
16 II, V | his power; and either by force or fraud obtained possession
17 II, V | accompanied with an armed force, he put many to death at
18 II, VI | endeavor to enter the city by force, and are repulsed— Change
19 II, VI | thousand men. This great force being quickly brought to
20 II, VI | had failed to obtain by force; and sent eight men as ambassadors
21 II, VI | they were unable either by force or policy to remove him;
22 II, VII | And in order to obtain by force what they had refused to
23 II, VII | possession, who entered Lucca by force, and Mastino’s people delivered
24 II, VIII| intention to oppose you with force, but only to show what a
25 II, VIII| my lord, how great the force must be that can keep a
26 II, VIII| have to hold this city by force, to effect which, guards,
27 II, VIII| without waiting for any force, admitted him immediately.
28 II, VIII| with a considerable armed force, and never took the same
29 II, I | signors, by threats and the force which they retained in the
30 II, I | themselves, and with justifiable force recover those rights of
31 II, I | it was first necessary to force the bridges. The Old Bridge
32 II, I | fruitless, they endeavored to force the Rubaconte Bridge, but
33 III, I | authoritatively use the public force.~“The common corruption
34 III, I | high esteem, that civil force was insufficient to restrain
35 III, I | people to effect them by force and arms.”~The Signory,
36 III, III | riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they
37 III, III | worried. Therefore we must use force when the opportunity offers;
38 III, III | proposed that whatever armed force was in Florence should be
39 III, IV | Maggiore; but the armed force did not venture to attack
40 III, IV | resolved to have them by force if they were not yielded
41 III, IV | abandoned by their armed force, by the leaders of the arts,
42 III, IV | took possession of it by force.~The Signory, desirous of
43 III, IV | could not restrain them by force, appointed four of the Colleagues
44 III, IV | they would be vindicated by force. This deputation, with amazing
45 III, IV | utmost fury resolved to force the Signory to consent to
46 III, V | Alberti with a strong armed force, to guard the city. The
47 III, V | to death, as it were, by force. Nor was the greatness of
48 III, VI | himself king of Italy by force. In 1391 he commenced a
49 III, VII | themselves with an armed force, called the citizens to
50 III, VII | neither words or deeds had force sufficient to stir anyone,
51 III, VII | finding that with merely open force he could not overcome them,
52 IV, I | della Pergola with a strong force against Imola, that Ludovico,
53 IV, II | not restrained by greater force or better regulations, appoint
54 IV, III | this law had then been in force they would not have gone
55 IV, V | obeyed him more through force than good will. And God
56 IV, V | mercenary soldiers, when force is insufficient, corruption
57 IV, VII | escorted by a strong armed force to his place of banishment.
58 IV, VII | and Niccolo Barbadoro. The force accompanying them was composed
59 V, I | overwhelmed by some extraordinary force. These causes made Italy,
60 V, I | so, leaving part of his force to check Piccinino, with
61 V, II | augmented his own naval force, went in person to meet
62 V, II | that are necessary; and force is merciful when it presents
63 V, II | refused, he threatened to force a passage. The armies were
64 V, III | either to send a strong force into Tuscany, or vigorously
65 V, IV | him. The count felt the force of the fears entertained
66 V, V | duke had assembled a large force in the immediate vicinity
67 V, VI | Giampagolo had proceeded with his force toward Tuscany, and that
68 VI, I | able to appear with a large force in Tuscany; that being completely
69 VI, I | Ostasio might never retake by force what he had imprudently
70 VI, I | obliged to lend his whole force to the siege. Upon this,
71 VI, II | the enterprise, but his force was not at hand to support
72 VI, III | They trusted that either by force or by treaty they could
73 VI, III | halted with their whole force, consisting of five thousand
74 VI, V | united to them a considerable force, introduced them into the
75 VI, V | Alexandria. The duke assembled a force of eighteen thousand cavalry
76 VI, V | able to unite his whole force against the Venetians and
77 VI, VI | have allowed their whole force to act against the army
78 VI, VI | assisted by Alfonso, his force would have been completely
79 VI, VII | obtained money and a small force. He sent again for assistance
80 VII, I | restrains the imborsations by force—Tyranny and pride of Luca
81 VII, I | of the people, and not by force, of which he would not hear
82 VII, I | which they had obtained by force, they banished Girolamo
83 VII, II | friends, they would, either by force or fraud, compel him to
84 VII, III | determined to effect by force what they either could not
85 VII, III | the head of a considerable force, with the avowed intention
86 VII, III | in the midst of a strong force, he came to the city, when
87 VII, IV | at the head of a suitable force, and all assembled at Castrocaro,
88 VII, IV | that his presence with the force was in many ways advantageous
89 VII, V | reduced to obedience by force, in accordance with the
90 VII, V | but having to retain it by force it will in critical junctures,
91 VIII, I | should voluntarily, or by force, contribute to their assistance.~
92 VIII, II | palace and brought an armed force into the piazza), the infamous,
93 VIII, III | and collecting as large a force as possible. Being in league
94 VIII, III | the duchess sent a strong force to recover the city, but
95 VIII, III | Deifobo, came with a good force, and being joined by all
96 VIII, III | Pisa, assembled the whole force between Colle and Santo
97 VIII, III | Vitelli commanded, to lead a force against that place, with
98 VIII, IV | between the parties was in force, when, quite unexpectedly,
99 VIII, IV | possession of it with an armed force, and imprisoned the Florentine
100 VIII, IV | It is thus evident, that force and necessity, not deeds
101 VIII, IV | than the enemy with all the force of their arms.~
102 VIII, V | not having succeeded by force, they threatened him with
103 VIII, V | of the Venetians, whose force amounted to two thousand
104 VIII, V | League united their whole force, and would easily have deprived
105 VIII, VII | Faenza with a considerable force, and Antonio Boscoli, the
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